With no clear winner in UK Assembly, from the election, a wounded May signalled she would fight on. Her Labour rival Jeremy Corbyn, once written off by his opponents as a no-hoper, said she should step down, the claim she has denied vehemently. Of the 650 seats, the Conservatives have won 316 seats and Theresa May has staked claim to form the government. Though the biggest single winner, they failed to reach the 326-mark they would need to command a parliamentary majority. Labour had won 261 seats. Britain's negotiations for leaving the European Union are likely to become "far more difficult," say experts.
UK Election Result 2017 Live: PM Theresa May Moves To Form Government
The UK election ended in a hung parliament after Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives Party failed to win a majority in the poll, as predicted by the exit polls.
What happens next if exit polls are right?
- If this does translate into a hung parliament when results come through, Theresa May as incumbent prime minister will have the first shot at trying to form a government -- either as a minority or in coalition with others.
- If May did manage to do this, she would then go to the House of Commons to see if her government could survive a motion of confidence, probably after the state opening of parliament on June 19.
- But if May could not form a government or did not survive the motion of confidence, she would be expected to hand in her resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.
- The monarch would then be likely to invite Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the main opposition Labour party, to try to form a government. That, again, could be a minority or coalition administration.
- If no government can command the confidence of the House of Commons, parliament can be dissolved and another election held.
- If this does translate into a hung parliament when results come through, Theresa May as incumbent prime minister will have the first shot at trying to form a government -- either as a minority or in coalition with others.
- If May did manage to do this, she would then go to the House of Commons to see if her government could survive a motion of confidence, probably after the state opening of parliament on June 19.
- But if May could not form a government or did not survive the motion of confidence, she would be expected to hand in her resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.
- The monarch would then be likely to invite Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the main opposition Labour party, to try to form a government. That, again, could be a minority or coalition administration.
- If no government can command the confidence of the House of Commons, parliament can be dissolved and another election held.
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Opinion: Why Theresa May Got It All So Terribly WrongAndrew Whitehead
Friday June 09, 2017Britain's election has delivered a topsy-turvy verdict. The result is straight out of Alice in Wonderland. The winner has lost; and the loser has won.
- Reuters | Sunday June 11, 2017 , London
The leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said today that talks were ongoing with British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party with a view to supporting their minority government.
- Tim Ross, Svenja O'Donnell, Alex Morales, Bloomberg | Sunday June 11, 2017
It was 5:15 a.m. when an exhausted Theresa May entered the campaign war room at Tory headquarters to face her demoralized party workers
- Agence France-Presse | Saturday June 10, 2017 , London
British Prime Minister Theresa May's two closest aides announced their resignations Saturday after a crushing electoral setback that left her authority in tatters.
- Agence France-Presse | Saturday June 10, 2017 , London
British Prime Minister Theresa May was expected to name the rest of her cabinet on Saturday after a crushing election setback, just days before Brexit talks begin.
- Reuters | Friday June 09, 2017 , London
British Prime Minister Theresa May made the following statement in Downing Street on Friday after she lost her majority in a national election
- Reuters | Friday June 09, 2017 , London
Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday she would form a new government with assistance from Northern Irish unionists to provide political certainty and lead Britain in talks with the European Union to secure a successful Brexit deal.
- Reuters | Friday June 09, 2017 , London
Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday she would form a new government to provide certainty and lead Britain in talks with the European Union to secure a successful Brexit deal.
- Agence France-Presse | Friday June 09, 2017 , London
Prime Minister Theresa May presented herself as a stable leader to take Britain through Brexit, but her gamble of an election backfired spectacularly.
- Reuters | Friday June 09, 2017 , London
Britain's Liberal Democrats party will not form a coalition to prop up the government of Prime Minister Theresa May after she failed to win a parliamentary majority in an election, Liberal Democrat Tim Farron said on Friday.
- Reuters | Friday June 09, 2017 , Beijing
Beijing will keep paying attention to developing ties with Britain and hopes Brexit can be "appropriately resolved", China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday, after a snap vote that dealt a devastating blow to British Prime Minister Theresa May.
- Reuters | Friday June 09, 2017 , London
Britain's opposition Labour Party will put itself forward to lead a minority government after Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives failed to win a majority in a national election, the party's finance spokesman John McDonnell said on Friday.
- Agence France-Presse | Friday June 09, 2017 , London
Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered one of the most dramatic reversals in recent British political history, losing an overall majority in parliament in a snap election she had been predicted to win easily.
- Reuters | Friday June 09, 2017 , London
Prime Minister Theresa May was fighting to hold on to her job on Friday as British voters dealt her a punishing blow, denying her the stronger mandate she had sought to conduct Brexit talks and instead weakening her party's grip on power.
- Reuters | Friday June 09, 2017 , Brussels
Britain's European Union partners do not know what to make of an inconclusive election result that throws the future of Prime Minister Theresa May in doubt and may delay if not more seriously derail talks on Brexit.
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